ANGER MANAGEMENT
Year: 2003
USA: Sony Pictures
UK: Columbia Tristar Films (UK)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Adam Sandler, Marisa Tomei, Heather Graham, Woody Harrelson, Lori Heuring, John C Reilly, John Turturro, Luis Guzman, Harry Dean Stanton,Krista Allen, Cody Arens, Marisa Chandler, Heather Charles, Roger Clemens, Allen Covert, Don Diamont, Stephen Dunham, Kevin Dunigan, Aaron Fiore, Kurt Fuller, Gina Gallego, Tony Genaro, Rudolph W Giuliani, Conrad Goode, January Jones, John Kirk, Jonathan Loughran, Jeff Morris, Kevin Nealon, Paul Renteria, Adrian Ricard, Isaac C Singleton Jr, Peter Spruyt, Lynne Thigpen, Nancy Walls
Director: Peter Segal
Country: USA
UK: 104 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 on appeal for crude sexual content and language
UK Certificate: 15 contains frequent moderate sex references
USA Release Date: 11 April 2003
UK Release Date: 6 June 2003
Synopsis
In Revolution Studios' riotous new comedy ANGER MANAGEMENT, Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson star as patient and therapist, though at times it's hard to tell which one is which.
After a misunderstanding aboard an airplane that escalates out of control, the mild-mannered Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) is ordered by Judge Daniels (Lynne Thigpen) to attend anger management sessions run by Doctor Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson), which are filled with highly eccentric and volatile men and women.
Buddy's unorthodox approach to therapy is confrontational and abrasive and Dave is bewildered by it. Then, after yet another mishap, Judge Daniels orders Dave to step up his therapy or wind up in jail. So, Buddy moves in with Dave to help him battle his inner demons. Buddy himself has no inner demons since he acts out at every opportunity and that includes making lewd comments about Dave's girlfriend Linda (Marisa Tomei) and goading Dave into confronting every slight, past or present, head-on.
But Buddy finally goes too far and Dave must decide whether to crawl back into his shell or stand up for himself. Could it be that Buddy's confounding and contradictory treatment is just what the doctor ordered?